INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Rivera Plate (RP), in terms of tectonic boundaries and motion, is problematic; it is an independent oceanic microplate (Atwater, 1970) of ∼100, 000 km2 (DeMets and Stein, 1990) with distinct kinematics with respect to the NAP and Cocos Plate (Eissler and McNally, 1984; Bandy and Yan, 1989; DeMets and Stein, 1990).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cocos plate is an oceanic plate that is relatively young compared to other tectonic plates since it was just formed around 23 million years ago. It has the North American Plate to the North, the Caribbean and Panama plate to the east, the Nazca Plate to the south, and the Pacific plate to the west.